Christmas is right around the corner, which means you should start making preparations now if you want to throw a grand Christmas party for friends and family. In this blog, we’ll discuss some brilliant Christmas party ideas to make it memorable for years to come.
The perfect Christmas party doesn’t exis… Wait, but it does! But the trick is to plan your activities well in advance. Christmas is a time to celebrate. Some people even spend a major portion of their savings on partying and partying hard. Hosting a memorable Christmas party totally depends on the activities you’ve planned. The more fun the activities the better the experience will be for everybody, including you! So, without any further ado, let’s get started!
Sorting out the planning part
The first thing you need to do is make a guest list so that you know exactly how many people are going to show up at the party. This is important because you need to make sufficient arrangements for everyone. This includes a place to accommodate everyone, food, drinks, karaoke machines, sofas and chairs, a big pool, and whatnot.
Make a list of everyone you want to invite and create digital Christmas party invitations using an online graphic design tool like PosterMyWall. If you have a small list of guests, having the invitations printed out and delivered to your guests is possible – but not if you have a big list of guests. Either way, it’s more convenient to craft digital invitations and send them via email or social media. Just make sure you ask the people to RSVP back so you know exactly who’s coming and who’s not.
Plan fun games at the party
Once you’ve sent out the invitations, there’s no going back – it’s time to put on your planning cap. You need lots of games at the party to keep your guests entertained and laughing at the very end. You could do a Christmas Carol Pictionary Relay where players draw out a song for other players to guess. You could make it more interesting by having the person who guesses wrong have a shot of vodka with each wrong answer. In that case, stock lots and lots of booze at least a week before the party.
If you’re hosting a party for a bunch of geeks and problem-solvers, a themed escape room is sure to bring everyone up on their toes. However, designing an escape room takes real ingenuity and time as you have to make your puzzle elaborate and difficult to solve. If that sounds like too much work, you could hire a couple of friends or take help from them. You can add more fun to it by having a few dozen canisters of helium and a smoke machine to alarm people at first, indicating a fire in the locked room but as soon as they realize their voice has become squeakier, they won’t stop laughing.
Who doesn’t love karaoke?
After physical exertion, your guests would like to chill out a bit. There’s nothing better than a karaoke contest. For this, you’ll need a karaoke machine and maybe a digital dance floor for people who want to dance along to songs. Equipment and machines can break down, so make sure you have a backup karaoke machine, microphones, and speakers arranged in case of malfunction. It’ll be an absolute buzzkill if anything goes wrong and you don’t have a backup.
Most importantly, you’ll need a good tracklist for karaoke. Choose popular songs everyone in your party knows by heart. “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson and “Teenage Dream” by Katy Perry are good examples. You could even have a mini-concert if you have musicians in the house.
Food, snacks, and drinks are everything
You can’t have a great Christmas party without food, snacks, and lots of beverages. This can be tricky since you don’t know what people would like to have on the menu. You can either ask them over the phone or have an entire food truck outside the party venue. Whatever the demand is, you just place an order with the food truck, and it gets delivered right away.
It’s a good idea to have multiple food options on the table. For food, we recommend Korean or Italian cuisine, and for snacks, you could do club sandwiches, fruits, salads, and chips. Drinks would include both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Have different types of colas, energy drinks, wine, and beer, so your guests have plenty of choices.
Photobooth for capturing memories
More often than not, Christmas party hosts forget to place a photo booth inside the party venue because they’re caught up planning and executing so many other things. A photo booth is necessary because it’s a place dedicated to taking snaps of the party and your lovely guests. You can post these photos on your social media or share them with guests so that your Christmas party is engrained in everyone’s memories.
Photo booths are also necessary for breaking the ice among your guests as it lets them participate in something they can all take back home at the end of the day. It’s particularly important if you have a large guest list. If you have a small one, however, you could manually take pictures as well.
A final piece of advice
The perfect Christmas party can’t happen without thorough planning. You need to plan well in advance for every minute detail. For example, you must have a couple of first-aid kits at your immediate disposal in case an emergency arises during the party. Similarly, you should have a contact list of the fire department, police, and the nearest hospital just in case something happens.
Last but not least, you should consider having a kids’ corner at the party if your guest list has people with kids. Parents probably can’t show up to your party leaving their kids unless they can hire a trusted babysitter. Still, having a separate safe space for kids is the most considerate gesture your guests won’t ever forget.
